Migration is a killer of Turkish Cyprus

What is the number of settlers from mainland Turkey in the population of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC)? Is the Turkish Cypriot community still the majority in their homeland, or has Northern Cyprus become flooded by settlers, making it a minority?

Many people in Northern Cyprus and in Turkey might not be happy with anyone writing on such potentially politically incorrect subjects. What do I mean? The late Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktaş always said:
 "Those who go, and those who come, are all Turks" when encountered with such questions on whether he was not concerned about the changing demographics of his state, which is recognized only by Turkey. Was it indeed that irrelevant to ask such questions? Are those leaving and coming all Turks? What about Cypriotness? Are Turkish Cypriots not gradually losing their distinct, peculiar islander identity blended with their tribal shamanic past, Ottoman life, British taste, and of course cohabitation with Greek Cypriots, their resistance culture and of course self-reliance enforced by a very long period of isolation, solitude and obligatory solidarity?

Those leaving the island are Turkish Cypriots, the sons and daughters of the land, perhaps more so, the soul of the land. Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Tuğrul Türkeş, a second generation Turkish Cypriot living in Turkey, was criticizing Turkish Cypriot President Mustafa Akıncı a while ago for wrongly putting the Turkish Cypriot population, who are now at the now-deadlocked Cyprus talks, at 220,000. According to Türkeş, in Britain alone the Turkish Cypriot population exceeded that figure. Was he right? No statistics are available for now, but Türkeş said efforts were underway to determine the Turkish Cypriot population living overseas. ...